Observed arrival · 2026-11-06
Hospital Price Book’s 599-to-1 MRI spread
A public-facing directory for comparing hospital-published prices across procedures and hospitals.
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- People comparing published hospital procedure prices
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- The lumbar-spine MRI comparison covers 128 hospitals, but the site lists published prices for only 137 of 5,419 hospitals.
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Procedure listings pair median cash prices with typical insurance rates, while comparison pages expose differences between hospitals for the same named procedure. Coverage is uneven: the homepage reports 5,419 hospitals listed but published prices for 137, with 45 procedures tracked. Its methodology identifies hospital machine-readable files and CMS directory data as sources, and it distinguishes published standard charges from an individual patient’s actual cost.
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